Re: Jason Arday’s death is dreadful – a nd enr aging

On 8/16/26 1:18 PM, Dude wrote:
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> dart200 <[email protected]> posted:
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>> On 8/16/26 12:29 PM, Dude wrote:
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>>> dart200 <[email protected]> posted:
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>>>> On 8/16/26 10:30 AM, Dude wrote:
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>>>>> Tara <[email protected]> posted:
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>>>>>> On Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24:40 AM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason
>>>>>>> Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless
>>>>>>> machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made
>>>>>>> him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’
>>>>>>> and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin
>>>>>>> story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now:
>>>>>>> wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The death of Arday is not only dreadful – it is enraging. It feels like
>>>>>>> a catastrophe foretold. Indeed, some of us wondered out loud if Arday
>>>>>>> had friends around him as the media storm over his alleged fabulism grew
>>>>>>> and went global. It was reckless in the extreme for the intellectual
>>>>>>> elites to fashion a new ‘black genius’ and then say ‘Oops’ when his
>>>>>>> carefully curated legend started to fray at the seams. They condemned
>>>>>>> him with their fawning.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays
>>>>>>> traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the
>>>>>>> oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving
>>>>>>> them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s
>>>>>>> the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals
>>>>>>> for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often
>>>>>>> twice as fatal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the
>>>>>>> best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very
>>>>>>> presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of
>>>>>>> whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’.
>>>>>>> It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a
>>>>>>> kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the
>>>>>>> questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed
>>>>>>> their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the
>>>>>>> diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying
>>>>>>> heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The
>>>>>>> foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was
>>>>>>> untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the
>>>>>>> ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none
>>>>>>> of them foresaw it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is where we cut to the rancid heart of identity politics. I have
>>>>>>> seen it reported that some black thinkers had reservations about Arday
>>>>>>> but they chose to keep them hidden. My God, their devotion to the cult
>>>>>>> of diversity outweighed their concern for a friend in the grip of
>>>>>>> fabulism. Propping up the edifice of identitarianism mattered more than
>>>>>>> guarding a colleague from a coming tempest that was always going to be
>>>>>>> as fierce as it was predictable. They preferred to bask in the
>>>>>>> half-light of ‘black genius’ rather than look out for a black colleague.
>>>>>>> The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Already, leftists are blaming the media for Arday’s death. Hacks hounded
>>>>>>> him into despair, they say. I’m not having this. The media is the only
>>>>>>> institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly.
>>>>>>> Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and
>>>>>>> Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize
>>>>>>> merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that
>>>>>>> would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the
>>>>>>> media found it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity
>>>>>>> is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked,
>>>>>>> black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks
>>>>>>> ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who
>>>>>>> must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require
>>>>>>> the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised
>>>>>>> according to the accident of our race.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true
>>>>>>> ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the
>>>>>>> monstrous jaws of identity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brendan O’Neill
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>>>>>> YES!
>>>>>>
>>>>> "Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry
>>>>> into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his
>>>>> death."
>>>>>
>>>>> Calls for public inquiry into Jason Arday 'witch hunt' - BBC, 8/16/2026
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>>>> ya'll are racists
>>>>
>>> That should wrap up this conversation!
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>> it should, but it won't
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> You just can't seem to stop talking about Jason Arday.
> 

and u just can't seem to stop being a racist nigger

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